Merry Christmas!!

Thank you for a great year and may your 2011 be filled with wonderful photo opportunities!!

Sweet Dogs (and Family)

This week's I Heart Faces blog's contest features dogs.  Fortunately, I have an amazing pair of Bernese Mountain Dogs who know how to pose!

I've been shooting Moose and his family for years (here's one of my old favorites) and they are all great at smiling.  Last year, they adopted Bear - a sister for Moose!  Her first photo session went a little rough but given that she didn't even know her name, we let it pass.

Now, she's a pro at smiling.  Here's one of the photos from this year's session and amazingly enough, all six faces are looking at and smiling into the camera.

Lake Norman Senior

Dean is a senior at Lake Norman and it's entirely possible that he was an eskimo in another life.  It was 25 degrees outside and this poor kid got dragged around town with me, while I photographed him.  I was wearing just shy of 16 layers.  Dean did bring multiple layers but his heartless photographer made him get rid of the sweater and sweatshirt so she could get just the right shot.

Sorry, Dean!

But you'll have to agree, it's a great shot!  You can't even tell how cold he was!